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In the custom of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combo of memoir, modern reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique account of China's famous northeast territory. For 3 years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the marvelous change almost all of rural China is considering in the form of a privately placed grain company that has generated new roads, created organic farming, and created high-rise rentals into which farmers can move around in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a trend going on across China that Meyer documents for the first time; indeed, not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Globe has anyone brought rural China alive as Meyer has here. Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer needs us over a trip across Manchuria's past, a brief history that talks about much about modern China, from the fall of the last emperor to Japanese profession and Communist success. Through stunning local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial locations and railways, and the POW camp into which a American sergeant parachuted to free survivors of the Bataan Fatality March. In Manchuria is a rich and original chronicle of modern China and its own people.
